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2013-11-09 Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka bars rights experts ahead of CWealth summit

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Posted by Fred 2013-11-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "By denying entry to the IBAHRI delegation, the government of Sri Lanka is demonstrating to the world its determination to block freedom of speech and independent discussion in the country,"

or upholding its national sovereignty which the groups like the one whining and bitching never seem to recognize, except when it works for them.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-11-09 09:48|| 2013-11-09 09:48|| Front Page Top

#2 What do you suppose "human" in "human rights" stands for?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-11-09 10:55|| 2013-11-09 10:55|| Front Page Top

#3 If they were concerned with 'human' rights they'd uphold the Geneva Convention that holds those who use civilians as shields to be the guilty and punished party rather than the other combatant. However, 'human rights' types seem to skip over that little technicality rather easily. After five years of bloody fighting no one seemed that upset of about 125,000 civilian deaths in the Battle for Berlin (or those who suffered under allied bombing). Write it off to 'pay back' that seems to be a pattern in several thousand years of human history. I don't see these types on the ground in Syria today putting themselves between the combatants pointing fingers. They always seem to show up afterward and rather selective in their demands as both Israeli and Americans have experienced.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-11-09 11:45|| 2013-11-09 11:45|| Front Page Top

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